Linux-Hardware Digest #774, Volume #14 Tue, 15 May 01 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: aic7xxx module in RedHat Linux 7.1? (Brian Lee)
Re: Video Card Question..... ("X_Factor6")
Re: help choosing modem (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help ("Harvey Braun")
Re: help choosing modem (Dances With Crows)
Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help (Toby Haynes)
Re: Hercules Game Theatre XP (Andrew Luke Nesbit)
Intel RAID srcu31 ("rakse")
Suspend-to-RAM on Linux (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Re: lm_sensors giving very little information (Ian Pilcher)
Re: Newbie Question: Printing on PS printer -- RH 7.0 (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux (Kwan Lowe)
Re: how to setup usb quickcam ("Tom Garland")
Re: Help with Ftape / T3000 drive (Allan R. Batteiger)
Re: Disk errors with kernel 2.4.2 (Kwan Lowe)
Re: Compaq Smartstation SCSI contoller (LTE ELITE) (freedman)
Mandrake 8.0 ("Jerr Wong")
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From: Brian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: aic7xxx module in RedHat Linux 7.1?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:49:44 GMT
Successful! :)
Something wrong with kernel patches for AIC7xxx module in RedHat Linux
7.1
At least, something wrong with loading the module.
I made a new ISO file which is work pretty well. I commented out all(5
files)
patches for aic7xxx modules and rebuild kernel rpm file. And I
inserted new rpm file into RedHat Linux 7.1
If you're in similar situation with me, mail me and I'll send you the
ISO
file I made. Only what I did in it is update kernel rpm file.
- Brian,.
ps. ISO file is too big to serve in my FTP.
Brian Lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install RH Linux 7.1 on Interl PC server. The machine has
> SCSI HDD and need to use aic7xxx module. There was no probelm with
> RH 6.2 but can't complete to install RH 7.1.
>
> Installation is hanged with message, ``Loading AIC7XXX module''. How
> can I solve this? Any comments about this will be very helpful.
>
> - Brian,.
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From: "X_Factor6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: Video Card Question.....
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:51:55 GMT
Yes I did. I said I am looking for a card for possible light gaming (that
includes some 3D gaming/OpenGL). :-)
X_Factor6
"michael james obrien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9dqfgc$dla$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> X_Factor6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I am looking at getting a better graphics card for my Linux box (
currently
> : runnibg Mandrake 8 ). Have been looking at a couple of ATI cards (Rage
Fury
> : Prp and Xpert 2000 128). Are these any good?? Just need something that
> : will work well for some possible light gaming. I am currently running a
ATI
> : 3D Charger 8MB, just want something with a bit more meat. Let me know
whaat
> : you think. Thanks.
>
>
> Hiya X
>
>
> YOu don't say if you want to do 3d/opengl type gaming or just 2d stuff.
> You probably won't see much of an improvement with the 2d stuff.
>
> Checkout www.linux3d.org for a good discussion of 3d stuff for linux.
>
>
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Subject: Re: help choosing modem
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:55:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a nice winmodem, and I've been told they can work with linux,
> but I've been getting a weird feeling from pages I've read that they
> don't work very well and/or they're just a bitch to install and use.
>
> Question #1) Should I keep my winmodem and use it and save alot of
> bread, or should I go for a new modem?
>
> Questions #2) Is the following modem a good choice for linux? If not,
> can I get some recomendations?
>
> US Robotics 56K V.90 PCI DATA/FAX INTERNAL MODEM
s/INTERNAL/EXTERNAL/
> Any other wisdom you can share on the matter mill be greatly
> appreciated,
any external modem which connects via a serial cable (rs232c) will
work well with linux, windows, and nearly anything else including dumb
terminals, macintoshes, old suns.
plus you get Das Blinkenlights!
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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From: "Harvey Braun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:01:06 GMT
I am wondering if anyone can point me to info regarding AGP. For example,
would RedHat normally have support compiled into the kernal or is the
support completely dependant on the video driver used for the video card.
And would there be any real differance between Disabled AGP and 4x AGP in
Linux?
HB
In article <9dp3ej$flp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "SilentNight"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry to be late in posting here new info.
>
> Here it is:
>
> my overclocking P3-700mhz FC-PGA to 895mhz prevents RH 7.1 running.
>
> After taking out all cards, except the video and check, RH does not run.
> Putting an old PCI video, an old TNT, 1st generation, these two run
> perfectly
> in Asus P3B-F, RH still hangs. I am at my wit's end. Have a break,
> coffee, think,
> and finally, that is the last possibility, which shows that RH may not
> like overclocking ?
>
>
> The Asus CUSL2 mobo + GeForce2 run perfectly with RH, not the video
> card.
>
> Cheers,
>
> SN
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: help choosing modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 May 2001 12:32:04 GMT
On Tue, 15 May 2001 01:35:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I have a nice winmodem
Parse error: "nice" and "winmodem" together without negation. Core
dumped.
>but I've been getting a weird feeling from pages I've read that they
>don't work very well and/or they're just a bitch to install and use.
Yes. In my experience, when they work, they're much more sensitive to
line conditions than Real Modems, and slower in their transmission
speeds.
>Question #1) Should I keep my winmodem and use it and save alot of
>bread, or should I go for a new modem?
$50 for an external is a lot of bread? Well, if you're a starving
college student... but that's what E-Bay and the Property Disposition
unit of your local college are for.
>Questions #2) Is the following modem a good choice for linux? If not,
>can I get some recomendations?
> US Robotics 56K V.90 PCI DATA/FAX INTERNAL MODEM
Not enough information. Manufacturers are very cagey about whether
their products are Real Modems or LoseModems. It's always a crapshoot
with internal modems, *unless* the box copy states "DOS compatible" or
"Linux compatible". If you could find more information, like the
exact make+model number, there's a page at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/
that can help you out.
"Find an external modem that plugs into the 9-pin serial port" is very
good advice; you can't go wrong there.
If you are dead set on getting your current LoseModem working, do a "cat
/proc/pci" and make sure that the LoseModem was made by Lucent. Those
can work; you have probably already come across
http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ in your searches. Works
reasonably well for me and the LoseModem on my Thinkpad 600X. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help
Date: 15 May 2001 08:44:28 -0400
On Sun, 13 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would look forward to any info. I seem to be luckier that you in that
> everything works fine except that I do not get the 4x AGP that I was
> hoping to get when I did my upgrade.
Does it work if you use 2x AGP instead of 4x? 4x can be flakey on a lot of
systems - I know people who have had to crawl back to 1x to get a properly
stable system.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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Subject: Re: Hercules Game Theatre XP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Luke Nesbit)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:58:41 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware you write:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am very seriously considering buying one of these cards because I am completely
>fed up with my SB Live! and the unresolvable crackling problem. (I am choosing this
>one over the SonicFury or Santa Cruz because
>> of the cool breakout box that it comes with.)
>> Can anybody verify that this card works properly under Linux? Are any of its
>features lacking in support?
>You'll need a bleeding-edge kernel (and I do mean bleeding-edge:
>2.4.4ac4 or newer) to get intelligable output from it.
>I'm not sure how well anything other than 2-channel waveout/wavein is
>supported though.. I have one in one of my dual boot boxen right now,
>but that machine has severe stability (hardware) issues, so I don't use
>it much.
>As far as Linux support is concerned, the best (modern) card to get is
>the SBLive. The GTXP should only get better, but it'll be a while
>before you can take advantage of its fancier features. And Philips
>hasn't released any specs at all. :)
I currently have an SB Live! and that is the very reason why I am looking
to buy a new card... it's giving me hell with its crackling and frequent
sound dropouts. Apparently this is a very widely known problem, and in
most cases, is unfixable (especially when using it on a motherboard with
a VIA chipset, like I am).
My main priority is in getting a *clean* sound. The subtler aspects of
audio fidelity are secondary in comparison to this, but still very
important to me.
So which sound card should I get which *is* properly supported under Linux,
and will give good audio fidelity, and *no crackling*???
-Andrew
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From: "rakse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel RAID srcu31
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:51:29 +0200
Hallo ,\
Hav anybody configured it , that lilo is booting from
RAID Volume.
I tried to do that , but when I am tiyng to add new lilo
I got the message "Map Statment is too big "
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:31:40 +0000 (UTC)
Is Suspend-to-RAM (STR) supported on Linux? If it is would appreciate pointers
to the docs.
Thanks.
Napi
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From: Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lm_sensors giving very little information
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:41:32 GMT
jurriaan kalkman wrote:
>
> Module Size Used by
> eeprom 3760 0 (unused)
> via686a 7904 0 (unused)
> sensors 6192 0 [eeprom via686a]
> i2c-isa 1248 0 (unused)
> i2c-viapro 4096 0 (unused)
>
I don't think we have the same chipset. lspci shows the following:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO]
(rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x
[Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South]
(rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management
(rev 30)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8029(AS)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP
(rev 01)
So it looks like this chipset (VIA Apollo Pro 133A) is completely
unsupported, which I find pretty surprising.
--
========================================================================
Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Printing on PS printer -- RH 7.0
Date: 15 May 2001 14:11:45 GMT
B. Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While I could reset the margins in all of the base (TeX and LaTeX)
> documents, it means that other "printing" devices (e.g. Adobe
Ah ha! There's your issue. In RH's tetex's dvips (got that?), the
default paper size is set to A4. To fix that, run 'texconfig', go into
the dvips configuration, and set the default paper size to be Letter.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:18:58 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is Suspend-to-RAM (STR) supported on Linux? If it is would appreciate pointers
> to the docs.
I was unable to get it working on a Dell Inspiron 3500 w/Mandrake 8.0 (Kernel
2.4.3). However, following the docs on Linux on Laptops I managed to get the
suspend to disk working.
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From: "Tom Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to setup usb quickcam
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:34:58 -0700
Just tell gqcam to use /dev/video0,
gqcam -v /dev/video0
Have fun.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Joseph C. Kopec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I also have had similiar problems trying to run gqcam-0.9 on Redhat 7.1,
> which apparently uses /dev/video as a directory. Has anyone had any
> luck with gqcam and Redhat 7.1?
>
> Tan, Li wrote:
>
>> hi, there,
>> I need your help, I am trying to setup a colorful quick cam in linux
>> box using gqcam program. I use RedHat 7.1 beta, kernel vrsion
>> 2.4.1-0.1.9. I found videodev, bw-qcam, and c-qcam modules are already
>> there, then next, I did modprobe -a videodev, modprobe -a c-qcam, and
>> the lsmod, the result is: c-qcam 7680 0 (unused)
>> videodev 4832 0 (c-qcam)
>>
>> then I excuted gqcam, it told me dev/video is a directory. what should
>> I do and change? please help me, I need cam work for my robot.
>>
>> thanks a lot
>>
>> Li
>
>
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Subject: Re: Help with Ftape / T3000 drive
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan R. Batteiger)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:37:55 GMT
T3000 Tape drive problem.
My mistake about the 40 pins, floppy is 34. I have been
working with an IDE drive that has been giving me problems.
To summarize: I am trying to get a T3000 floppy interface tape
drive to work with RH 7.0. I have hooked it to the floppy cable
both with and without the floppy attached. When I attempt to
execute a tape rewind I am told there is no device present. I
have verified that the ftape modules are loaded and the devices
exist in the /dev dir. When the floppy is connected to the cable
the tape rewind causes a floppy access. It is as if the ftape
module is not doing a proper select on the drive. Unfortunately
I have not had the time to dig through the sources of ftape to
attempt to understand how it works.
Any advice or help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
--
Allan R. Batteiger
Real-Time Services Inc.
2530 Tarpley #600
Carrollton Tx. 75006
972-245-4239
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk errors with kernel 2.4.2
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:40:32 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now this is definitely not the state of events I would like them to be. My
> old RedHat 6.1 worked fine on this machine on an old Seagate hard drive.
> It seems therefore that either the 2.4.2 kernel is broken or the new disk
> is defective. The log file would occasionally have this message:
I had similar problems with 2.4.2 and 2.4.3, usually when deleting large
directories from ext2 partitions. The problem seems to be fixed in 2.4.4 but
I've not fully tested it yet.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (freedman)
Subject: Re: Compaq Smartstation SCSI contoller (LTE ELITE)
Date: 15 May 2001 13:59:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 May 2001 17:51:35 -0500, Johnson's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>freedman wrote:
>>
>
>Thanks Freedman! I got it working.
>
>I used your advice along with The Offical RH Install guide to clue me in
>in the exact format. I found my parameters in the BIOS setup.
>
>The final looked like this:
>aha-152x=0x340,10,7
>
>The 7 at the end is my host ScsiID.
Glad to have helped. If you figure out how to get X working on the LCD
screen let me know.
--
Dick Freedman
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From: "Jerr Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Mandrake 8.0
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:56:39 +0800
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